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ہر رگِ جاں سے پکار آئی ، ترےؐ آنے سے
’’دل کی دنیا میں بہار آئی ترےؐ آنے سے‘‘
شانۂ زیست پہ جو بوجھ تھا گمراہی کا
بوجھ اپنا وہ اُتار آئی ، ترےؐ آنے سے
زلفِ ہستی میں تھی صدیوں سے غضب کی اُلجھن
خود کو وہ آج سنوار آئی ، ترےؐ آنے سے
ابنِ آدمؑ کو ملا نورِ ہدایت کا چراغ
روشنی جب سوئے غار آئی ، ترےؐ آنے سے
وہ جو عرفانؔ ! بھنور میں تھے پریشان بہت
اُن کی کشتی بھی ہے پار آئی ، ترےؐ آنے سے
Holy Quran is the most sacred scripture bestowed by Allah Almighty upon his bellowed prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Unlike other scriptures, Allah Almighty himself took the responsibility of safety and safe custody of the Holy Quran. That is why, despite passage of more than 1400 years, the Holy Quran remained intact, wordwise as well as meaningwise and will remain intact till the end of the world. Such a unique status of the Holy Quran could not be tolerated by the enemies of Islam and Prophet of Islam. Therefore, they decided to present Holy Quran as a defective document before its readers. For this purpose, they chose to highlight and exploit the short and abbreviated incidents, described by the Holy Quran, under the term of “Muthashalihat”, by adding and narrating false, nonsense and most astonishing stories, just to divert attention of the readers from the basic learning of Holy Quran, towards un-realistic and bogus stories. Accordingly majority of the readers have shown great interest in these stories, which fall under the title of Israiliat Unfortunately, the said stories are included in dozens of Translations Tafaseer of the Holy Quran. In order to acquaint readers of the actual status of Israiliat, the undersigned has started working on the subject. Since Tafseer-e-Jalalain is included in the Syllabus of Maddaris and being taught for the last many years, therefore, I have chosen the same in the first instance, and pray Allah Almighty to help me out in completing my assignment.
Articulated more in the context of religion than science, racism is regarded by social scientists as an ideology disguised in various forms under global circumstances. Understanding of racism share common characteristics with the contemporary concept of Islamophobia. Deconstructing selected literary works of Lorrain Adams, John Updike and Don Delillo within Fredrickson’s notion of racism ‘as scavenger ideology’, the present study unveils racism incorporated in Islamophobia in fiction. The purpose of this study is mainly to explore Islamophobia as a manifestation of racism in the selected American literary texts to understand American perspective of Islam and Muslims. Denouncement of lslam and Muslims appear important means to reproduce and rationalize racism as an expression of extended anti-Islam prejudice in modern fabrication in these texts. The study uses Derrida’s conviction in the eternal quality of literary texts outliving their authors to become part of a set of cultural habits equivalent to, if not surpassing, the importance of authorial intentions. The ideology remains living and shapes the general belief of the masses. Rather than tracing the origin of racism and Islamophobia, the study encompasses literature review related to the changing forms of racism during late 20th century to early 21st century and its contemporary evolution into Islamophobia. The study is significant in unravelling the concealed anti-Islam agenda practiced through language. Its genuine contribution to the existing knowledge is to establish relationship of racism and Islamophobia contextualized within 9/11 attacks previously unexamined in the body of selected literary fiction. The study concludes by necessitating interfaith community interaction that may help in decreasing religious conflicts. The study also proposes a thorough discursive understanding of Islam as a code of life because most of the Western and American assumptions generated from ignorance.